Telephony

The EMUI dialer shares a common interface with the contacts app. There are no groundbreaking features here, but there isn't anything missing either.

Smart dialing • Contacts • Editing a contact

The dual-SIM settings menu lets you rename cards, disable them from software, and select which one does calls or data by default. The interface leads us to believe that while 4G may be limited to just one card, both get 3G connectivity in addition to 2G, which the specs don't indicate.

The interface is not ideal in that dual SIM settings are in one menu, while the mobile networks are in a different one. You may need to do a little bit of back-and-forth to set things up precisely to your liking - say, to limit the primary card to 3G. 'Primary' as in the default card that gets 4G connectivity - you choose that in dual SIM settings. Then in the mobile networks section you get to pick the preferred network type, but only for this primary card - the other one makes do with the rest of the available radios.

Loudspeaker

Just like the P10 and P9, the P10 Lite has a pretty powerful loudspeaker at its disposal. As expected, the dedicated bottom-mounted speaker turned out to be the quite powerful and produced a Very Good score in our loudspeaker test. It has a clean and rich sound output, and we give Huawei credit where it's due.

Speakerphone test

Voice, dB

Pink noise/ Music, dB

Ringing phone, dB

Overall score

Sony Xperia X Compact

64.1

65.1

69.5

Below Average

Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime

63.1

67.3

71.3

Average

Oppo F3

63.1

68.7

70.4

Average

Sony Xperia XA1

61.7

69.7

71.8

Average

Huawei P8lite

66.5

66.6

75.7

Good

Huawei P9

72.1

66.6

75.6

Good

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (S625)

67.3

70.3

81.5

Very Good

Huawei P9 lite

66.0

71.5

83.2

Very Good

Huawei P10 Lite

68.5

72.5

80.1

Very Good

Huawei P10

67.7

70.0

83.6

Very Good

Huawei nova

69.2

71.9

80.6

Very Good

Huawei Mate 9

83.1

74.5

85.0

Excellent

Pre-installed apps

Huawei offers a pretty rich default app package. The Health app is great. It tracks steps and calculates calories burnt, but can also supposedly count the number of floors you've climbed.

Health

A neat Compass app is available as well. It has level function and AR mode with live coordinates.

Compass • Level • AR mode

You also have a ton of basic tools preloaded, including a proper file manager, calendar app, notes, weather, sound recorder, and flashlight.